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Thanks for your insight and specific example of "transcendental illusion." My approach to truth is actually more of epistemological questions or concerns in metaphilosophy rather than metaphysic. I think I understand where Mahayana Buddhism is motivated to say that all things are empty which reflects my approach to truth or the implication of the necessity of initial assumption(which I think can also be defined as a "leap of faith" in epistemological sense or brute fact in causality argument).

Before I saw your link to the citrus guy on etsy, I was going to ask if your family sends you citrus in the mail. My parents live in Tucson and grow a lot of citrus and they mail me a big box in January in the same priority mail boxes. citrus mail is the best mail! Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmiZnJ7Ara3GpZxnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwMeeZKChnpyys3nDoqOlZaOWua67zWiaqKWdmru1vw%3D%3D

Hmmm, I haven't tried this with all oil so I can't say for sure! I have read that cupcakes made with oil vs butter tend to dome more, but I don't know the science is behind it. If it's not a huge dome, you could always flip it upside down and serve with the flat side on top. Lowering the oven temp to 325F might also help it bake more flat (not sure how much longer it will take to bake though).

I was in the 4th Avenue Theater with a friend in the early 70's, he was an intelligent quirky guy and he said look up, that's what the Big Dipper looks like from the exact opposite side of the Universe. And he was right, the Big Dipper is reversed on the ceiling. The handle in reality goes to the left, Ol' Cap Lathrop got it going to the right. here's a link to a photo.

Thank you so much for visiting my Substack. If you’re here, you’ve likely seen the exciting news that I have signed a book deal with Del Rey at Penguin Random House in the US and Michael Joseph in the UK for my debut novel, Alchemised. In these early days, Substack updates won’t be kept to much of a regular schedule, but if you’d like to be among the first to know as I have news to share, please feel free to subscribe.

reply to your Episode. 66...about fish tradition in the movie...:) Fish and “ Moscow doesn’t believe in tears”movie. You know how you think movie at cinema, automatically popcorn comes to your mind? You know how in Italy they say espresso you have to drink…hot, seated, in good company? Fish has same meaning, its more of a ritual/tradition. Imagine, you want to meet with good friend, or not even friend, person you just met like in that Russian movie.

As an illustration of this point, I wanted to share part of a beautiful poem my late grandfather, Dr. Howard Fulweiler, wrote about John the Baptist. His portrait, for me, captures both the gritty, idiosyncratic physicality of desert asceticism and the awe-some divine presence that permeates its forbidding landscape: A homeless man was sent by God to teach A change of heart. Bizarre in camel’s hair, Baptizing in the Jordan he came to preach

'Beware the Weak Man' reminded me of Timothy Snyder's 'The American Abyss'. To quote, it opened, 'When Donald Trump stood before his followers on Jan. 6 and urged them to march on the United States Capitol, he was doing what he had always done. He never took electoral democracy seriously nor accepted the legitimacy of its American version.' See gifted link to the piece below. In 'Beware the Weak Man' he takes us on the crucial journey we have embarked upon.

Hi, David! My freezer is always packed solid, too. In cold weather it's crammed with soup, which I may eat twice a day and expect to have on hand in variety. In hot weather I lose the ice cube bin, otherwise used as extra freezer space, because I want ice cubes and room for homemade ice pops. The name of your friend's magazine is correct in the boxed link, but in the text you called it Baked from Scratch.